The win was anything but meaningless. Considering our season to date, you would have expected the Saints to steam roll over us, once they got going in the rhird quarter. At that stage it looked like a 10 goal thrashing was coming our way. Instead the team dug deep, arrested the one way traffic and turned the game on its head. Fightbacks happen in football often, but not of that order of magnitude, and not by teams languishing near the bottom of the ladder. One win by and of itself does not mean a whole lot, it could be a flash in the pan. It was a game full of drama and had its share of heroes, celebrate it for that alone if you must, but celebrate it you most certainly should.
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Donslaught: No deja vu as Saints dusted in Spud’s Game
Eight minutes into the third term, it would have felt like deja vu for Essendon fans.
With the Bombers holding a 28-point lead at three-quarter time, St Kilda piled on four goals from five inside 50s, with a Jack Higgins major from a harsh free kick levelling the scores midway through the third term.
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Herald Sun, how could it have felt like deja vu? I don’t think we’ve had a 28 point lead this year until this game and I don’t recall ever losing to St Kilda after having a decent lead.
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Maybe deja-va at getting slaughtered by the umpires?
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And they also mean half time
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$25 cocktail jugs were a bad idea.
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Rolling over in the 3rd like the Freo and Brisbane game?
That’s the sort of match analysis you get when you outsource the writing to Alexa or Siri.
Then stick your name on it for the pay cheques.
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Great call CJ.
The other thing that irks me is people whinging about our losing culture, which on its own is justifiable. But don’t whinge when we win. The only way to change that culture is by bloody winning!
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Not usually one for this sort of 20/20 hindsight clip…… but today I’ll make an exception.
Leaving Reid out for better match ups eh…. turns out the coaches actually do have some idea what they’re doing, at least more than peanuts on the internet.
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The answer is yes, significantly. They were pinned in their back half consistently throughout the game with Essendon playing a high man on man press.
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You must believe in Lord Rutten, young heathens, and the rivers of wine will flow through your body for all of eternity.
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Reid has been a non factor for most of the year. Hardly coaching genius to drop him. I think the point most people were making was regardless of form, play the kids. The reality however is that we’ve had that performance under the hood all year except Rutten’s inflexible stubbornness to not revert back to last years successful game style killed us. Our coaches are not so smart, trust me. They’ve completely wasted this season.
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He’s not been a non factor, he’s a been a liability.
Really?
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The one Essendon person not happy with the result will be Dudoro, he might feel pick 3 is slipping through his fingers with WCE this week & North still to come. That’s until Rutton returns to whatever game plan we have been trying to play this year.
The second issue is who gets omitted this week after such an even performance. Parish & likely Langford will be ready to go and outside of Ham there is probably no obvious omission. Shows what a difference a shorter injury list makes.
This year is trashed so we should keep playing the kids. Every extra game they play will help with next year. Go Dons!!
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This is fine, as long as he also attends each final.
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win lose or draw, we should be getting games into him. i mean, even the commentary team highlighted that last night
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As finals is off the table and the win loss ledger isn’t important any more, Rutten should be telling them to take the high risk / high reward kick every single time. Let the players spend the rest of the season learning their capabilities / limitations.
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Pick them first.
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The realist in me says WCE will trounce us and North will be no push over. One excellent win does not a season turnaround make.